Senior Business Director / Associate Vice President

DEPARTMENT: Media Planning PRIMARY LOCATION: Mumbai JOB SUMMARY: The role is to be the day-to-day overseer on media issues for assigned brands, including accurate budget control and flow of media activity. The role will require to develop and maintain a strong knowledge of clients’ business and apply media understanding accordingly, to help deliver against the clients’ needs/objectives. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To build and foster client relationships by taking charge of the client’s media requirements from formulating strategies and plans to final implementation.
• Provide media plans across mediums post media brief mining and other data analysis.
• Provide insights led solutions for brand problems through various media tools.
• Generate ideas for brands and lay down communication approach to achieve innovations across mediums.
• Contribute to new business presentations and analysis through insights, media plans and innovations
• Focus on the quality of output/consistent performance/professional code of conduct/sense of ownership/honesty and integrity.
• Lead a team by supervising and mentoring them to raise the quality of deliverable to the client

PROFILE REQUIREMENTS:

• 12+ years of agency experience
• Post Graduate Degree/ Diploma in Advertising/Marketing/Communication
• Media understanding, plans working knowledge, campaign management experience with both TV, print, radio and Non-traditional media – activation, cinema etc.
• Strong business, marketing & consumer understanding
• Understanding of all media channels (includes digital) and disciplines and the ability to develop simple and actionable ideas into strategies that matter
• Keeping abreast of current industry communication / media thinking

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Strategic innovation & creativity skills , excellent presentation skill
• Experience in Tools - GWI, TGI, Reach planner, Market intelligence, Similar Web, Comm score,
• Analytical skills – both qualitative and quantitative
• Strong knowledge and understanding of media tools and techniques / processes
• Team player and positive attitude
• Excellent communication skills

About Havas Media Network India Havas Media Network India is a media conglomerate that operates within a global framework – Mx – to drive Media Experiences and invest in Meaningful Media to build Meaningful Brands. The network offers a wide range of integrated marketing solutions covering strategy, media planning & buying, PR, social media, mobile, sports & entertainment, data, research & analytics services across traditional and digital media. It consists of media networks – Havas Media, PivotRoots and Arena Media, and specialist brands – Havas Market (e-commerce), Havas Play (entertainment, gaming, sports and fandom), Havas Play Gameplan (sports marketing), Havas Programmatic Hub (programmatic trading desk), Havas Analytics (data & analytics), Socialyse (social media), KlugKlug (influencer marketing) & Havas Media Tribes (out-of-home). For more information, visit & follow Havas Media Network on social media. About Havas Founded in 1835 in Paris, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications networks, with more than 22,000 people in over 100 countries sharing one single mission: to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people. Havas has developed a fully integrated model through its 70+ Havas Villages around the world, covering all communication activities. The teams of the three business units, Havas Creative Network, Havas Media Network and Havas Health & You, work together with agility and in perfect synergy to offer tailor-made, innovative solutions to clients that support them in their positive transformation. Havas is committed to building a diverse culture where everybody feels they belong and can be themselves and thrive. Havas integrated into Vivendi, a global leader in media, entertainment, and communications, in December 2017. Further information about Havas is available at . About Havas India Havas India gathers the expertise of 21 agencies, specialised divisions and strategic alliances across 3 verticals:

• Havas Media Network – Havas Media, PivotRoots (integrated digital), Arena Media, Havas Market (e-commerce), Havas Play (sports, entertainment & content), Havas Programmatic Hub (programmatic trading desk), Havas Analytics (data & analytics), Socialyse (pure play social media); strategic alliances: Havas Media Tribes (out-of-home), Havas Play Gameplan (sports marketing) and KlugKlug (influencer tech stack)
• Havas Creative Network – Havas Worldwide India (creative), Havas People India (talent communications & employer branding), Havas CX India (customer experience), ekino (technology consulting & digital deployment), Think Design (UX/UI), Shobiz (experiential marketing), Shobiz Exhibits (exhibitions) Conran Design Group Mumbai (branding & design), PR Pundit Havas Red (PR), and Prose on Pixels (content-at-scale)
• Havas Health & You – Havas Life Sorento (health & wellness communications)

With its unique Village model, it is an integrated network present across 3 Villages in Mumbai, Gurgaon and Bengaluru, and regional offices in Kolkata, New Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai, with over 2000+ professionals and associates. As one of India’s fastest growing and agile networks, Havas India has bagged multiple new clients across verticals and won several prestigious awards over the last 2 years including the group being Great Place To Work® Certified™ twice in a row (Nov 2022 - Nov 2023 & Dec 2023 – Dec 2024), consistently being featured in the top 3 at R3 New Business League rankings, and winning at Campaign Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year awards, e4m Indian Marketing Awards 2023, ABBY One Show 2023, Campaign Women Leading Change awards, and more. Our CSR programs, DE&I initiatives, and being actively involved in various industry associations is what keeps us invested as a network that has a clear mission of making a meaningful difference to brands, businesses and people. Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job. For more information, visit and follow Havas India on social media.